Fuel supply control apparatus for internal combustion engine

• US 5,230,318 A
• Filed: 06/09/1992
• Issued: 07/27/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd. (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd. (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwamoto, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): ARGENBRIGHT, TONY MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US07/895,811
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• Field of Search: 123/478, 123/480, 123/492, 364/431.05
• US Class Current: 123/478
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/501 Vehicle speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0225 in relation with the gear ratio or shift lever position
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/045 Detection of accelerating or decelerating state detection thereof in general G01P

Abstract

A fuel supply control apparatus for an internal combustion engine on a motor vehicle which controls the fuel injection quantity to the engine in accordance with an operating state of the engine, the apparatus detects a gear-shift position in a transmission of the engine on the basis of an engine speed and a vehicle speed so as to set a pressure decision value on the basis of the gear-shift position and the vehicle speed. This pressure decision value is compared with the actual intake pipe pressure so that the decision is made such that the engine is in a high-load state when the intake pipe pressure is higher than the pressure decision value. The apparatus increases the fuel injection quantity to the engine under the decision that the engine is in the high-load state. This arrangement can accurately detects the engine high-load state so as to ensure the effective travelling of the motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A fuel supply control apparatus for an internal combustion engine on a motor vehicle, comprising:

means for detecting a speed of said motor vehicle;

means for detecting a rotational speed of said engine;

means for detecting a gear-shift state in a transmission of said engine;

means for detecting a pressure within an intake pipe of said engine;

means for setting an intake pipe pressure decision value on the basis of the detection result of said vehicle speed detecting means and the detection result of said gear-shift state detecting means at the time of the detection of the intake pipe pressure;

means for comparing the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means with the setting result of said pressure decision value setting means to decide that said engine is in a high-load state when the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means is greater than the setting result of said pressure decision value setting means; and

means for increasing a fuel injection quantity to said engine when said high-load decision means decides that said engine is in said high-load state.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said high-load decision means decides said high-load state of said engine when at least one of a variation of said intake pipe pressure, a variation of said engine speed and a variation of said vehicle speed becomes below a predetermined value and further the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means is greater than the setting result of said pressure decision value setting means.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said high-load decision means decides said high-load state of said engine when the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means is greater than the setting result of said pressure decision value setting means for longer than a predetermined time.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said gear-shift state detecting means detects said gear-shift state in said transmission of said engine on the basis of the detection results of said vehicle speed detecting means and said engine speed detecting means.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising means coupled to said intake pipe pressure detecting means for reading the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means as an atmospheric pressure when said high-load decision means decides that said engine is in said high-load state.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said predetermined time is changed in accordance with a deviation between the detection result of said intake pipe pressure detecting means and the setting result of said pressure decision value setting means.